Professional Billiard Instructors Association

What Professional Billiard Instructors Association does

The Professional Billiard Instructors Association (PBIA) is a non-profit organization founded in 1992, operating under the web domain playbetterbilliards.com. With a stated headcount of 7 employees, it is a small association-style entity in the billiards/pool recreation and instruction space. The name and domain positioning imply a member- or instructor-oriented body serving the billiards instruction profession and recreational players, though the organization's primary website content was not retrievable from the source (the page returned only a loading/verification screen), so specific programs, certification schemes, membership tiers, or events cannot be confirmed from the supplied data.

No proprietary technology, products, services catalog, pricing, partnership, or revenue figures were extractable. There is no disclosed ownership, parent entity, or investor base — consistent with a standalone non-profit association. Operating status, geographies served, and management team were likewise unavailable. As a result, the business model, technology stack, customer segmentation, and go-to-market mechanics cannot be characterized beyond the structural inference that a 7-person non-profit association of this vintage is most plausibly funded by membership dues, instructor certification or accreditation fees, events, and possibly modest sponsorships within the niche recreational billiards market.

Name

Professional Billiard Instructors Association

Website

https://playbetterbilliards.com

Company type

Private

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Professional Billiard Instructors Association is a small non-profit association (founded 1992, 7 employees) operating in the billiards/pool instruction space via playbetterbilliards.com, serving instructors and recreational players in the niche.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Billiard Instruction & Certification Services

NAICS

Sports and Recreation Instruction (61162)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Coach Education, Certification & Clinics (HSADAEAO)

akta.pro secondary industry

Referee, Umpire & Coach Education/Certification Academies (MPAKAJAN)

Keywords

• Billiard instructor certification
• Pool coaching services
• Cue sports education
• Professional billiard training
• Instructor membership association

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Core offering

The Professional Billiard Instructors Association is a non-profit association that certifies and credentials billiard/pool instructors. It maintains a public-facing instructor directory on its playbetterbilliards.com website that allows billiard players to locate certified instructors for lessons, and it provides the professional credentialing framework that distinguishes qualified billiard teachers in the cue sports industry.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• PBIA Instructor Certification
• PBIA Instructor Membership
• Public Instructor Directory (playbetterbilliards.com)

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Broad incumbents

• PGA of America: The PGA is the dominant professional golf instructors association with a much larger scale, but shares the same model of credentialing instructors, providing education, and serving as the professional home for coaches in a single sport.
• American Poolplayers Association (APA): The APA is the largest amateur pool league operator in the U.S., serving as a broader ecosystem player that touches many of the same instructors, venues, and players the PBIA serves, but at league scale rather than instruction-only.

Direct peers

• World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA): The WPA is the international governing body for pool and billiards, setting rules and sanctioning events; it represents the global-tier analogue to PBIA's domestic professional instructor focus.
• Billiard Congress of America: The BCA is the national trade association for the billiard industry, providing certification, education, and trade support that closely mirrors the Professional Billiard Instructors Association's role for instructors specifically.
• Billiard Education Foundation (BEF): The BEF is a billiard-focused education nonprofit that promotes the sport through scholarships, instruction, and youth programs, directly overlapping with PBIA's educational mission in the billiard vertical.

Regional players

• International Billiards & Snooker Federation (IBSF): The IBSF governs amateur snooker and billiards globally with an educational and development remit that intersects with PBIA's instructor development mission, though focused on snooker specifically and operating at a global rather than U.S. level.

Emerging players

• United States Bowling Instruction Association (USBIA): USBIA certifies bowling coaches and instructors in a comparable niche sport, making it a close functional analogue to PBIA in terms of certification structure, instructor membership, and educational programming.
• United States Professional Tennis Association (USPTA): USPTA is a comparable professional instructors association model — certifying tennis teaching professionals and providing educational resources — making it a structural analogue for how a niche instructor association operates and monetizes.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/professional-billiard-instructors-association

Revenue estimate

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Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

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